Answer to Roger and Shuichi

[Stefan Müller]

Hi Tibor,

> If these operations do not play a role at tectogrammar, what makes (1)
> ungrammatical while (2) is fine, given that the tectostructure of both
> examples is identical?
>
> (1) *Etwas     zugeflüstert, der dort  steht, hat sie dem Mann.
>      Something whispered-to  who there stands has she the man
> (2) Sie hat dem Mann etwas     zugeflüstert, der dort steht.
>     She has the man  something whispered-to  who there stands

Actually the Kathol & Pollard analysis makes the right predictions here.

If you say that an (extraposed) relative clause has to follow its
antecedent, then (1) is out.

You may test this with the two sentences that are equivalent to the ones
you gave above:

http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/cgi-bin/babel.cgi/::Sie+hat+dem+Mann+das+Buch+geschenkt,+der+dort+steht.
http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/cgi-bin/babel.cgi/::Das+Buch+geschenkt,+der+dort+steht,+hat+sie+dem+Mann.

Babel contains an implementation of the Kathol/Pollard analysis.

Greetings

	Stefan

@InProceedings{KP95a,
   author      =	"Andreas Kathol and Carl J. Pollard",
   title	      =	"Extraposition via Complex Domain Formation",
   booktitle   =	"Proceedings of the Thrirty-Third Annual Meeting of the
ACL",
   organization=	acl,
   address     =	"Boston",
   note	      =
{\url{http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~kathol/Papers/ACL95.ps.gz}.
		\urlchecked{29}{06}{99}},
   year	      =	1995
}

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